National Prevention Week (#NPW2017) is an annual health observance dedicated to increasing public awareness of mental and/or substance use disorders. The 2017 theme is Making Each Day Count.
Read more →CSB releases its final case study into the explosion and fire at the Williams Olefins Plant in Geismar, La. The Chemical Safety Board (CSB) released its final report into the June 13, 2013, explosion and fire at the Williams Olefins Plant in Geismar, La., which killed two employees. The report concludes that process safety management
Read more →Contractors were working on the line “to restore system integrity” following a September gasoline leak. Fires are still burning at the site of a gasoline pipeline explosion in Alabama on Oct. 31. A crew of contractors from L. E. Bell Construction was working on the Colonial Pipeline line in Shelby County around 3 p.m. when
Read more →Discount retailer has been cited with more than 100 safety and health violations since 2010. Dollar General store #13229 in Jonestown, Pa. is the latest location that demonstrates Dollar General’s six-year failure to take corrective actions to ensure employee and customer safety at its locations. On Oct. 18, 2016, OSHA issued citations for one willful
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